Hours elapsed. As I said earlier,
I had lost my sense of time. Now I feel really stupid and dense. Although,
I had a good feeling that it was supper time. By now, Agumon was functioning
again. Scott allowed Agumon into my room. The two of us chatted non-stop
about how we got here and how the cryonics lab was so cool. Hey, it's the
biggest factory I'ver ever seen. It makes me feel like I'm 5 again!
"So, how are the two of you?"
Agumon and I looked in the direction of the doorway to find Scott standing
there with trays in his hands.
"Supper! Yay!" I laughed at
my partner's happy, giddy voice. Scott placed the trays in front of us.
To my delight, there was a juicy steak sitting on a plate. The other delicacies
that sat before me was a cup of milk, some Caesar salad, and crackers.
"Thanks Scott." Scott sat down
in that red chair again.
"Your welcome." the 42 year
old looking man replied. Greedily, the Agumon and I began to chow down
on our meal. I can say one thing about this meal. It's a LOT better than
my mom's liver surprise meal for supper!
"Iz delichious!" Agumon cried
out while chewing the steak. Scott nodded.
"I knew you two would
like it. My daughter cooked it up." I bit off a bit more steak before looking
back at Scott.
"So what's the deal with my
other friends not being here? It's been 35 years only. Unless the mortality
rate has gone down or your factory makes bad medicine…. Where are
they?"
"It…. It has to deal with the
warfare that's been going on. Obviously, neither of you two understand
what I must be talking about."
"No" Agumon and I said in a
weird synchronized way.
"Well, here, I'll let you in
on the secret." Scott leaned in more on us.
"Those faithful years ago when
your friends fought against Apocalymon… they failed. I'm sorry to say that,
but they did." That brought a ton of weights down on my hopes. "They tried
their best, but they were missing their leader. The last few to stand was
a girl named Sora and a Metal Garurumon. The girl was horribly injured
and ordered for Agumon to be frozen in the cryogenics lab."
"I see…."
"Apocalymon has been destroying
the world. He's in search of slaves. But he is really in search of the
Digidestined's leader and digimon. Accordingly, he thinks the Digidestined
hid them away somewhere. That darn old digimon has barely given up hope.
To aid him in his search is old Fruppus. Fruppus is an old psychic freak.
He controls the minds of digimon and human alike…. While Apocalymon stills
souls and places them into the once innocent people and digimon…. Quite
sad really."
"Yeah…" Agumon commented.
"But there IS a prophecy that
says of something… no one really gets it though. Like I said, it's in the
city." Gennai loved prophecies, I thought. I wonder if the old guy's still
around….
"Where's the city?" I asked.
"Not far from here really. The
city is not shielded by any barriers of any sort. It looks like…. I'll
let you two see it in person once you are ready to leave here."
"I'm ready." I said finishing
the last of my meal. Agumon burped.
"I'm ready to go too you know
Tai."
"But I'll decide on that." We
looked at Scott's eyes. They were serious and looked, if you can believe
this,…. But they looked wise.
"You can go… but, I must tell
you something. Your on your own out there, and it's dangerous. Naturally,
I am the only one who knows your true identities as the leaders of the
Digidestined. You musn't let anyone else know. They could be bad, but they
could be good guys. I seriously suggest you two take a look at that prophecy
and try to fulfill it."
"You've seen it before?" I asked
rudely interrupting. I usually don't interrupt people, but this is the
future. I guess that still means that the rules still apply to me.
"Yes, I have seen it before.
But like everyone else who has seen it, it has made no sense to me. It's
a hidden language. Not physically hidden, rather…. I can't really explain
it." Huh? I blinked once at Scott's confusing statement.
"Anyways. Please be careful
out there, you'll learn about the future and what it has to offer. You'll
learn your new role in life…."
I rose and shook hands with Scott.
"Thanks for everything you've
taught me so far. And thank you for resuscitating me. I appreciate all
the care you've given me the last how many years."
"35"
"I knew that." I said cheerfully.
Agumon bowed to Scott and Scott bowed back to Agumon. My partner and I
were at the doorway when Scott halted us.
"Wait! Before you go… Oh geez,
I forgot all about this."
"What?" I asked.
"Items from the past that we
kept for you." I blinked.
"Um, thanks Scott."
"Here, follow me." Scott led
us out of the quiet wooden room into the noisy factory. We went into an
office beside a lot of huge garages on the side. Agumon closed the door
behind us.
The office had a glass window,
a control panel, and a couple of chairs in the room. A security camera
was probably somewhere in the room. I'll know where it is if Agumon begins
to make faces at something other than the workers here, I thought.
"Now, here." Scott thrusted
a small box into my hands. The box was heavy and made of pure metal. I
think it's titanium actually. I grunted from having all this heavy weight
being put onto me.
"Well, this is your equipment.
Your friends and family wanted everything in this box to be… well, placed
in here. Also, that girl put in a special message for you along with several
other special messages. " Scott leaned in towards my ear and said the next
sentence in a quiet whisper. "I think she missed you. Because I feel that
this message she gave to you is really special…" Scott moved back.
"Okay, so… do I open it now?"
"No, wait until you get into
a hotel room and whatnot. Oh, and by the way, my friends and I here at
the cryonics lab left you a special message in there…."
"Cool. But do I get anything?"
Agumon asked. Silence.
"Well, uh, anyways, we're going
to give you and Agumon a little car to drive around in. I suspect that
you two have not seen the regular cars that are being driven around here
have you?" Agumon and I both shook our heads. "Well, in that case, follow
moi to the garages." Agumon and Scott merrily went out the door while I
struggled to just keep my back straight while holding onto this 'memory'
box.
We stood in front of one of
the huge garage doors. Scott looked at a person near some control platform
and nodded to him. The person nodded and hopped onto the platform. He went
to the control panel and touched a single button. The garage door whirred
to life and slowly lifted it's cover up to reveal the contents of the garage.
Needless to say, I was speechless.
Rows of grayish black two-door
cars were all neatly lined up. Headlights and all. No hood though. That
was the only flaw. The cars were so small and so compact with little seatbelts
that could make any girl say cute. Well, it seemed that most girls said
cute to anything small (except for insects and certain digimon that is).
"Whoa… we get to keep one of
these things?"
"Came with the cost."
"Wow, thanks Scott sir."
"Your welcome. Now, just hop
into one. Agumon, better hop into the same vehicle as Tai does and buckle
up your seatbelt. From what I can tell, you can't drive and Tai isn't much
better than you are." I glared at Scott. What a liar.
I shook my head though and crawled
into the closest car with the license plate "5TO78". Agumon jumped into
the seat beside me. Scott tossed me the keys and I started up the car.
Then, I realized something.
"Scott!" I yelled over the rumbling
of the car.
"What?"
"I can't drive a car! I don't
even have a driver's license!" Scott tossed me something. It fell into
the back of the car.
"You do now!" I grinned.
"Thanks!"
"Goodbye and good luck you two!
If you ever need any help, come back here!"
"We will!" With that, we were
gone, off into the night….
I know. Like I said previously, off to a slow start. However, action is gauranteed in the next chapter. Oh, homework. Right, I really shall get back to that before I type more up. There may be a brief pause again as I will be busy doing stuff. I'll be back on the week of Christmas though. Whether there are updates or not, I'll be hanging (as I said last time). Also, I am really surprised now. Story ID's are now in the millions. Big change from the past. Also, the increasing number of Digimon stories form long ago has faded. It's odd really. I rarely find any new Taiora stories up on the Digimon category. *grins* However, I am back (from what? Homework and laziness) for a while once again and I will type up new stories and hopefully finish some of my older ones. Well, I'll update later. Adios amigos. For now.
-Ice Wolf17, 12/08/02